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US should wait a couple months before easing COVID-19 measures, expert says. Here's what's at stake
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Updated: 8:32 AM CST Mar 2, 2021
By Christina Maxouris, CNN
US should wait a couple months before easing COVID-19 measures, expert says. Here's what's at stake
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Updated: 8:32 AM CST Mar 2, 2021
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We have made some great progress in the past few weeks in terms of our covid numbers. With these declines are hospitals have been able to resume elective surgeries and procedures, so please do not delay seeking medical care if you need it. So right now of the people getting tested the past few days, uh, the daily test positivity rate, averaged over 77 days has been about 3%. That's actually the lowest it's ever been since we've been offering testing in the community. The seven day average number of daily cases by episode date has now decreased to less than 1000 a day, were, thankfully returning to average daily case numbers at the levels we saw before the surge, As we saw in L. A county overall, healthcare workers also experienced a surge in cases and late fall through the winter. Now, as cases overall have declined and as so many of our healthcare workers are fully vaccinated, cases have dropped to the lowest they have ever been since the beginning of the pandemic.